Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

--Cranks are nuisanees, butth 1arm-
er's boy is apt to think the grindstone
crank tho worst Of the lot, about haylng
time.
-She-"Arc you going to the picnic
Tuesday, GeorgeP' He-"O, yes"
She with feeble eindifference) )-"Alone.
Georgo'" He-"No; shall take an
umbrella. ~ Puck. ftfg
The Daily Noon says the report
that James Mayo, of Battle Creek. 'yho
was bitten by rattlesnake, was about
to die, is incorrect. 1t was the snake
that died. .-GF t~-n Err
CHARLES johnson. OF Griffin, Ca,
says that he has a cat that turned from
Jet black to gray from grief at being
separated from his children, to whom
1t was greatly attached. q 80
"A peach tree forty years old, at
Sonoma, CAL, has produced $50 pounds
offruit this season. Most of the peaches
measured over eight inches in circum-
ference. Afa Pts
Thomas Ford, of Ellsworth, Me-,
while at work in his garden, dug out
of tho earth a small gold watch, and a
few days after long gold chain. The
articles look as ifthey might have been
lost nine or ten years ago. ~
in tho early part Of the reign OF
Henry VIII. Lord Chief Justice Reed
tried an action, when on circuit, in
which the jury was locked up, but be-
fore giving its verdict had eaten and
drunk, which all the members con-
fcssed. This being reported to the
Judge. he fined them each heavily and
took their verdict
g--Al Parkersburg. W. Va, q little
Lee boy found an old liquor barrel, and
amused himself BY dropping lighted
matches through the vent hole. Pres
emily there was an explosion, and boy
and barrel were blown into the
branches Of a neighboring tree. The
boy was badly hurt and the barrel
ruined. y VIII ~ Z.
Considerable excitement has been
| occasloned in Louisiana by the report
that leprosy existed at St Martinsville
| in that State. The State. board OF
health has made an examination and
finds that five persons are suffering
from undoubted leprosy, while three
others arc as yet In doubt
--''What are you crying about, john
nyp" asked Mr.. Fizzletop OF his little
boy Johnny, Christmas day. 81 can't
-boo--fnd-boo-- my candy horse"
and then the poor little fellow broke
down completely. A"Where did you
put It ?" ,I-leat--it up. .p-Te1ds
Sylmgs ~ =
"A cne-legged beggar of St. Louis
became so urgent in his requests for
| aid that he was arrested the other day.
When the polics searched him they
fonnd fifteen tobacco bags in his pock-
cts and sewed to his ragged clothes,
and each bag contained some money.
The total amount was $74.41.
1t is common thing for sailors on
west bound English steamers to find
from ten to fifteen stowaways. The
freight handlers are great friends 10
tho tramps who wish to make an mex
pensive voyage. In vessels that bring
over brick the leaders will build up a
little room around two or three men.
and in several cases from dozen TO
two dozen men have thus been secreted
Omaha politician-''What did you
buy that thing forpn His Wife-"This,
my dear. is necktie, and l want you
10 wear It." "Whatp Wear necktie
and lot my constituents get the idea l
feel myself above them. Woman, II You
had your way I'd be ruined.p "But,
we are going of on visit, you know" "
20, we'll. hide it in satchel until we
get into the cars, then I'll put 1t NJ
Omaha World.
The Yczidis are the Kurdish "devil
worshippors." They have no ceremonial
ablutions. or attach no Importance to
them, and are allowed to use nothing
colored blue. They will not sit down
on sofa having blue tassol or entel
room containing an article of furni
ture covered with blue cloth. Their re-
ligion prohibits them from serving a:
soldiers, though there appears to bt
nothing to prevent them from cutting
throats on their own account-Bosto'
Globe. ,,
In tho Colorado desert, near Idaho
there is large bed of rock-salt, an'
the Southern Pacific railroad, in laying
the track to the salt-bed, has beel
obliged to grade tho road for twelv
, hundred feet with blocks Of these beau
tiful crystals. This is the only instanc
where road-bed is laid and ballaste'
on salt. The sea which once rolled owe
this place dried up and left vast be-
Of salt nearly fifty miles long. Th
supply is inexhaustible and the quallt
excellent. -Pubhc Opinion
"A stranger, who claimed to be
slater. applied for work in Newark, n
j., one day recently, and was give
, employment ON the roof of an ur
} finished house with another workman
t A few minutes after the other work
, man, not getting an answer TO que'
) ton, looked around and found himsel
alone on the roof. Peerlng down tn
hole where the chimney was to b
| placed, he saw the stranger lying {
: the bottom-sixty feet below. He CAV
. the alarm, and brandy was procure
t and administered. "An hour afte
, ward the stranger dragged himself
a street-car and rode away" tf